On 01/30/2014 10:27 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Eight years ago, I wrote an article for SysAdmin, suggesting a
>> straight partition for /boot and root, and lvm for /home and /var, and
>> /usr. These days, I might say RAID 1 for /boot and /, and RAID or not
>> for swap, and another raid partition for everything else: home, other
>> data directories....
>
> That's pretty much in line with our practice for standalone machines:
>
> * /boot -- RAID 1
> * / -- RAID 1
> * /srv -- RAID 1 or 5, and it may not even be broken out
> * /home -- NAS (RAID 10, if it matters)
>
> For VMs, there's just swap and /.
>
>> At work, we're going to not more than 500G for /, but I'm thinking a
>> lot less: I just rebuilt my own system at home, and gave / 150G, I
>> think, and I have /var there (though I'd put web stuff elsewhere than
>> on /).
>
> A RAID 1 of (relatively) inexpensive 80GB or 120GB SSDs are my default
> for swap and the root filesystem. Larger /srv filesystems, and the NAS
> holding /home, still require spinning platters on our budget.
>
What type of network/filesystem connection between VM's and storage you
create (NFS, native, separate partitions....)?
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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers
Serbia, Europe
StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
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